PT-1997-1208 · Microsoft · Windows Nt

Published 1997-07-25 · Updated 2017-10-10 · CVE-1999-1217

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.6

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Windows NT (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue allows local users to gain privileges by placing Trojan horse programs with the same name as commonly used system programs into certain directories, due to the current working directory (.) being included in the PATH.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

CVE-1999-1217

Affected Products

Windows Nt

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-1999-1217 · Security Note
• http://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=87602726319426&w=2 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/526 · Note
• http://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=87602726319435&w=2 · Note